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Etymology

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Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *teiba, or borrowed from Sabine tēba (hill). Or could be related to Tiberis and the praenomen Tiberius.[1] In Roman lore, the city was said to have been named for Tīburtus, son of the city's founder Catillus.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Tībur n sg (genitive Tīburis); third declension

  1. A town in Latium, seated on the Anio; modern Tivoli.

Declension

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Tībur
Genitive Tīburis
Dative Tīburī
Accusative Tībur
Ablative Tībure
Vocative Tībur
Locative Tīburī
Tībure

Derived terms

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References

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  • Tibur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Tibur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Tibur”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Chase, George Davis (1897). "The Origin of Roman Praenomina". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. VIII.
  1. ^ DNGI: Dizionario dei nomi geografici italiani, TEA, Torino 1992.